SocialBlade.com Redirects to Exploit Kit

30

Jul

2014

Popular websites are always a target for cybercriminals, and in a recent campaign, YouTube statistics tracker SocialBlade.com has been compromised to steer users to pages serving the Nuclear Pack exploit kit (EK). The malicious download was detected by the system operators at Malwarebytes, who notified the administrator of the website to take the necessary measures for cleaning up the code. SocialBlade is a tracking website for YouTube statistics that allows users to keep tabs of their progr…